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Definition of Bacon

Bacon

The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

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Bacon Quotations

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
James M. Barrie

I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world.
Katy Perry

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.
Lucian Freud

There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
Carlisle Floyd

I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.
Mark Rylance

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.
Mark Rylance

Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.
Mark Rylance

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.
Jeffrey Bernard

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.
Eric Roberts

I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.
Brad Carson

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.
Douglas Reed

The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
Walter Map

You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.
Hillary Scott

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.
William Taylor

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.
Hugh Kingsmill

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Bacon Translations

bacon in Danish is bacon
bacon in Dutch is spek
bacon in Finnish is ihra
bacon in French is lard
bacon in German is Schinkenspeck, Speck
bacon in Hungarian is angol szalonna, szalonna
bacon in Italian is lardo
bacon in Norwegian is bacon, flesk
bacon in Portuguese is toucinho, toicinho
bacon in Spanish is lardo, tocino

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